Cover Letter

Gwen and I have been reading many hundreds of letters from
readers - Gwen reads them six days a week. We so often read
these words, "You probably won't read this, but I'm writing just
the same." But we do read the letters personally. Gwen tries to
personally answer letters from the elderly. Many elderly saints
are on our mailing list.

Something awesome has happened in the mail we are now
getting. God's faithful ones are telling us they, too, have an
inner knowing that our nation is headed for a chastening from
the Lord. They are not fooled by the present wave of prosperity.
As one sister put it, "I don't know where they get those
outlandish statistics that most Americans no longer care about
morals, so long as there is prosperity. We in mid-America are
concerned! I do not know of a single person in my community
who thinks our leaders can be immoral and be excused
because they have helped the nation to prosper. We do care!
And if eighty percent do not care, then God help this nation! We
are really in trouble!"

Beloved, it's time to pray! It's time to seek the Lord with
fervency and faith. And our prayers should not be focused on
beseeching the Lord to keep prospering us. We ought to be
shut in with the Lord, getting to know Him more intimately -
getting to know His still, small voice getting prepared for the
days ahead!

What is the Lord saying to you? Is the Holy Spirit impressing
on you that God is soon going to judge this sin-saturated
nation? We would truly like to hear what the Lord is telling you
because I believe the Spirit of God is speaking clearly to
multitudes of His precious children. These letters have mightily
encouraged me to speak out, preaching and publishing
warnings.

Every Tuesday our pastoral staff meets in my office for prayer.
We lay hands on all the prayer requests and we pray very
diligently that God will answer the heart cry of all who have
shared their burdens with us. This is serious business with us -
it is not a gimmick to raise funds.

As you know, we say very little about money. And yet God has
been moving on the hearts of our readers in a blessed and
profound way. We minister to the addicted, the abandoned
mothers, the hungry - and every week there is a sufficiency.
God has been meeting our needs through the power of prayer.
May God be greatly praised!

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